# David Harvey

- Quotes: 37
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey

## Books

- [The Limits to Capital](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital.md) — 37 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.

p. 338 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/the-accumulation-of-capital.md)

> There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

p. 442 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/there-is-in-short.md)

> Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/because-the-earth.md)

> Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

p. 424 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/capitalists-behave-like.md)

> Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/skills-that-are.md)

> Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/individual-capitalists-in-short-necessarily.md)

> But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/but-the-net.md)

> The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

p. 165 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/the-social-relations.md)

> If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/if-all-money.md)

> Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

p. 369 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/speculation-in-land.md)

> The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.

p. 376 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/the-geographical-movement.md)

> When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

p. 293 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/when-money-functions.md)